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River

/ˈɹɪvə/

A large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, oftentimes ending in another body of water, such as an ocean or in an inland sea.

📖 Definitions of "River"

noun
  1. 1

    A large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, oftentimes ending in another body of water, such as an ocean or in an inland sea.

    "Occasionally rivers overflow their banks and cause floods."

  2. 2

    Any large flow of a liquid in a single body.

    "a river of blood"

  3. 3

    The last card dealt in a hand.

  4. 4

    A visually undesirable effect of white space running down a page, caused by spaces between words on consecutive lines happening to coincide.

verb
  1. 1

    To improve one’s hand to beat another player on the final card in a poker game.

    "Johnny rivered me by drawing that ace of spades."

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